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“Life is a narrow valley, and the roads run close together”

— Henry Adams

There was a lot of camaraderie among the bands. I remember a lot of times when I'd be driving up Laurel Canyon and pass…

— June Millington

In the early to mid-'90s, everywhere I turned, someone had died. It wasn't just people in bands. It was the people I was hanging…

— Dave Gahan

“At such moments, I felt that we were like the people in California who live in enormous houses on the sides of cliffs, ghat…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“Crowded rooms and lonesome tunes and very little sky.”

— Rod McKuen

“How do you calculate fish fries in the backyard, kiddie pools in the front yard, and unfettered views of a thousand starts in the…

— Monica Hesse

“Listening to them, I imagine myself a gorgeous stubborn singer, traveling the world with hope and a guitar, turning as rough and piney as…

— Fanny Britt

“And this notion of the meaninglessness of our lives here began to enflame us. I took up the theme again that music and acting…

— Anne Rice

Like a lot of young people growing up in the middle of nowhere, I was desperate to leave my small town behind, but music…

— KT Tunstall

“I put on slight music I could ignore and started to write. The type of this music I most favored they no longer made.…

— Sergio De La Pava

When we moved to Seattle, everybody kind of disappeared into different corners of the city and it was a very difficult time for the…

— Ben Gibbard

In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This…

— Henry Rollins